2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
    Nov 23, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog

DSCI 125 - Introduction to Data Science


Data is the fuel of the modern economy! An organization’s ability to manage data and generate insights enables better decision-making. In this course, we introduce a number of concepts, methods, and tools purposed with extracting information from data as we go through key issues in Data Science. We cover data representations in Python, visualizing data, statistics and probability, data gathering and processing, intro to machine learning, natural language processing, retrieval, and data ethics. Students will gain hands-on experience in the data science process: posing questions, gathering data, developing analyses, articulating and presenting data-informed decisions.

Prerequisites: CSCI 120  or CSCI 124  and

MATH 120   or MATH 124  or GEOG 110  or ECON 160  or SOC 202   or PSYC 105   or PSCI 107   or QBUS 110  

(Minimum grade of C- required for pre-reqs)

Course Designation/Attribute: POP

Anticipated Terms Offered: Spring 2025